Aḥmad b. Ṭūlūn - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Gordon, Matthew S.
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Aḥmad b. Ṭūlūn (220-70/835-84) was governor of ʿAbbāsid Egypt and founder of the short-lived Ṭūlūnid state (c. 254-92/868-905). The biographies of Ibn al-Dāya (d. 340/951) and al-Balawī (fl. late fourth/tenth century) date his birth to 220/834-5. Little is known about Ibn Ṭūlūn's mother, Qāsim, a slave woman (jāriya) . His father, Ṭūlūn (d. 240/854-5)-whose name is likewise probably a slave name-is reported to have been sent by Nūḥ b. Asad (Sāmānid governor of